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Diego Rivera
Cargador de Petate (Petate Bearer)1943

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Watercolor and ink drawing of a small figure bent forward under a towering load of a slatted crate and rolled straw mat, signed Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera, Cargador de Petate (Petate Bearer), 1943, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Diego Rivera
Mexico, 1886-1957
Title
Cargador de Petate (Petate Bearer)
Date Made
1943
Medium
Watercolor on paper
Dimensions
15 × 10 3/4 in. (38.1 × 27.30 cm); 25 1/4 × 21
Credit Line
The Bernard and Edith Lewin Collection of Mexican Art
Accession Number
AC1997.LWN.226
Classification
Drawings
Collecting Area
Latin American Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Los Tres: José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros. Santa Clara, Calif.: Triton Museum of Art.
  • Diego Rivera: a Rare Retrospective Exhibition. Palm Springs: B. Lewin Galleries, 1993.
  • Magaloni, Diana and Michael Govan, eds. Picasso Rivera: Conversations Across Time. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2016.
Copyright
© Banco de México Diego Rivera & Frida Kahlo Museum Trust. Reproduction of Diego Rivera governed by Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.